The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-05-26
BILL NYE COMING EAST.
The HumorIst to be Attached to tn
staff or ssThe World"

staff or ssThe World"
Edgar w. Nye, otherwise known as Bill Nye,
passed through Chicago yesterday on his way
to New York. He has entered into an engage
ment with the New York World, and will il
the future write exclusively for that paper.
To a reporter for the Tribune he said:
'sYes, / am about to enter journalism AGAR
regularly. Since the Laramie boomerang, IL
the first flush of youth, departed this world J
have been somewhat of a strolling PLAYER. ]
have twanSed my Tyre (please spell that cor
rectly) here and there and everywhere. bu
now again one paper exclusively will be sub
jected to my attacks. Well, well, The WOrit
is a strong paper, aud | have hopes that the!
won't effect it as they did the boomerang
The Word l understand, already has a week
" issue, so that there will be no complication.
as arose on the BO0merang."
The reporter glanced up inquiringly, ant
Mr.. Nye fastened to explain.
"Oh, of course, you don't know about that, ,
he said. swell, when we started our daily
we had not thought of getting up o weekly
but one day an old fellow strOlled in and SAFE
he wanted to subscribe for the weekly. | TOLD
him we did't have any In stock, and asked i
the daily wouldn't do, but no-he had to haW
the weekly.
"'Well,' I said, If yon must have the week
ly of course we will get one up for you. Sub.
s~cription 50, please
"He paid his So, and then l explained tina
1t would take us about two weeks to get it on
but that it would come. He seemed satisfied
and | went to the foreman of the composing
room and appointed him editor of the weekly
1t was a success. We only issued 100 ut first
but 1t soon ran up into the thousands. In.
deed, it was so successful that we began tt
look around to see what made i. so much bet
ter than the daily"
"And did you find out?"
ooh, yes. There wasn't so much of it."
"And about your engagement on Tn,
Word, Mr.. Nye? VIII you make New Yorl
your homel"
"Well, yes" he replied ~thoughtfully; "and
yet / shall run in and out occasionally tt
lecture. 1 was greatly troubled about this
point at first, and | went to the editor anC
frankly told him my doubts"
81 don't want to injure yOur paper, sir ]
said, but 1 should like to leave New York
now and then for a day or two
SHE considered the matter deeply for a
moment or two and then replied:
"'Well, Mr.. Nye, ii You insist we win en-.
deavor to get the paper out without you. ]
feel reasonably confident that such short
absences as you contemplate will not neces
sarily force us to suspend or miss an issue
or course, this relieved my mind of a great
weight.n
In regard to his book Mr.. Nye said:
Il expect a great deal of this last book of
mine, and Tl tell you why. 1t is a larger.
thicker book than any | ever published before.
What the public wants is 4 biz bOok-ont
that can be used to prop up the lounge when
a leg is broken. Such a one is Invaluable in
household. 1t can be put in a chair to bring
baby's head on a level with the table; it can
we'll, it can be put to a thousand uses.
have considered this matter very deeply, and
the result is that the next book | publish /
intend to make fully 4 foot and Il half thick.
That viii make a success. Why, look at the
most successful books of 10 day-those that
have the widest circulation. What are they:
The dictionary and the family bile. and YET
neither of them has any plot. / don't take
any stock in this realism theory Of HowelIs
No, sir; the coming book is the big book."-
Chicago Tribune.